How do I model a shear wall that straddles two diaphragms?
• LatPro IBC allows the user to assign the forces from multiple diaphragms to a gridline. The shear walls are then designed to resist the resulting gridline force. For shear walls that straddle two diaphragms, tributary area above the shear wall can be defined with different live and dead loads for the two different diaphragms. The live and dead load inputs are used with the ASD load combinations to size the shear wall chord/edge member and the holdown connector.
